silence ross the ordeal of a journalist held by syrian rebels with no news of a date is a deadline possible solution. energy addicted britain there's a he's of resorting to dirty policies to deliver gas as a means of technique but a science with a strong environmental. and a washington loves to clinch a deal that would lead to more u.s. troops and hardware into asia as china's new leader advises his military to. its my day here in moscow hope you're having a wonderful day so far good to have you with us on our team the fate of

a ukrainian journalist held by syrian rebels remains on after reading some deadlines groups threatening to execute paused on how it was kidnapped by insurgents said to be from the free syrian army who she repeatedly accused of on your brutality against civilians is policy it takes up the story. well the deadline has passed with no word as to whether or not she is dead or alive she was reportedly kidnapped by the free syrian army and held for ransom of fifty million u.s. dollars she was taken hostage nearly two months ago and since then has appeared in two separate videos in the first she appeals to the ukrainian government to pay the ransom money and state her free in a second which many believe was made under due is she admits to being a spy but the point needs to be made that just about everyone believes the that this video was made under extreme pressure and dulce the objectiveness of what she was saying now reporters without borders amnesty international and

a number of other nongovernmental organizations have called on the free syrian army as well as the syrian national coalition they've demanded that they immediately secure her release saying that this is the first taste of the newly widely recognized government at the same time the same rebels who are allegedly holding who have posted a video in which they have said that no russian no ukrainian and no rain in will leave syria alive so there is deep concern as to her fate now recently there has been a wave of rebel executions in one at least ten bound prisoners shot at point blank range by the rebels and this was recorded and posted at the same time just a few days ago it was a young child who was forced by the rebels to behave and i'm armed as well as bound prisoner so certainly there was

a lot of concern over her fate and particularly the fact that nothing's been heard from who is very worrying the hope now is that rebels might listen to calls for the journalist release and spare her but gilbert monsieur editor of news junkie post believes there are a number of barriers to that happening. the your position all we know you know me is source. it's going to be very you. get only saying you know for sure he is in the end of the new straw overall but is being made by washington d.c. . with al qaida in iraq neither washington power as know exactly where they are. and what's going on. mohamed from the search i've been online magazine says complacency in

pleasure in the rebels to secure the ukrainian journalists release is sending all the wrong signals. it's the worst. or american citizens in particular we've got here to to. be sure to put some pressure to release the hostages. leave the. country is. a very local proxy and very should have been sort of thing there were a massacre to be over. there would we still be enjoying. from the information we're going to be across if. american troops are getting closer to syria's borders the pentagon by a patriot and complexes in turkey to defend kind of these borders and the south range however well let's say deep into syrian territory you can read the details on our team. the future of the middle east and what role the

international community has to play in it is the main theme of the latest edition of cross talk the question of who bears responsibility for the strive gripping the region is being debated at twelve thirty g.m.t. . i wouldn't blame the united states for the sectarian divisions that existed in the middle east for hundreds of years and they were exacerbated by the iranian revolution you have. a theocracy in iran that has tried to shape the region according to its own interests and a lot of the sunni states resigned and of course the united states is allied with a lot of them including saudi arabia. you can achieve stability boys supporting. saudi arabia which is the main troublemaker in the region which shows caused bulkiest on to be become such you know a haven for extremists and this is also the case in syria where because of sold the

funding and precisely because of so do support you have all of these jihadi it's boring to syria. the u.k. government has given the green light to a controversial gas drilling technique known as fracking is heavily criticized for its destructive environmental impact including causing a massive water pollution artie's polly boyko has more. driller is the only company with a license to conduct fracking in the u.k. but that's all set to change now that the government has given its blessing for the controversial method of extracting shale gas from underground already operates several wells here in lancashire but the device of technology was temporarily banned last year and with good reason to the fracking taking place here because minor earthquake says. it was terrifying. a local and he's doing very little he

said i don't know a lot about it well he should know a lot about it you're going. to lie shareholders pockets this is not going to benefit and should be a legacy toxic legacy for our children hundreds of miles away in london the capital's outspoken mayor calls shell gas on six of the nation's prize and the reserves in lancashire a miracle but for residents here in this trying call corner of england it's a blight on their otherwise peaceful community and the prospect of more fracking sweeping the countryside is frightening and they keep talking about it being people and where those reserves are all the way down i think at the moment it's all about . how much better off will be but. the technology may raise fares but the promise of riches from the rush for shale gas has set politicians pulses racing despite mounting opposition which has spread beyond lancashire. struction using hydraulic fracturing techniques is

a high risk activity which as many benefits for foreign investors very little for the people of britain for dirty energy. it is a short term and not very intelligent solution to energy problems they're going to get money out of the drug program to. bring in corrupt governments would do anything for money i think it's just sort of resource money they can just get the money so this is not really for the press interest i don't believe to do that way brussels isn't convinced either the european parliament is reportedly considering regulating the budding shale gas industry concerned that britain doesn't know what it's doing by throwing itself wholeheartedly into the controversial practice at the minute we are not self-sufficient and gas and haven't been for

a very long time we were but in actual fact we import about harmful gas now we see that in the us gas prices are a quarter of what they were untrue fact this suit to output this issue to prove print is much less so there are many reasons why she'll gas if it can be made to work and it would be attractive in terms of security supply and also probably in terms of price stability and that's what's drowning out the warnings bringing down people's energy bills means politicians and big business can press ahead even though those living in the shadow of fracking facilities know that the government is playing fire. r t. london has managed to keep economic decision making power in the after the bolts leaders agreed to the european central bank to become the main supervisor full banks in the euro zone which in which sticks to its own currency had feared moving to a banking union could make it financially paulus see it all falls on the u.k.

independence party says the deal won't bring any benefits to his country. but there is a certain code of politicians and advisors in this country who are petrified that they're no longer going to be at the central table of europe enjoying the late night events in the flash cars and hotels that they get the decision making the real buzz of being there but there are those like me actually and the party that believes that being outside of of this particular cuba would actually influence great great britain's influence would actually rise and we'd be able to trade more easily with the rest of the world because we're freed of these regulations. it's far from the christmas spirit in spain as thousands of people have taken to the streets of madrid protesting against austerity and demonstrators left out at the government's cuts to the education sector saying this already drastically damages the quality of

teaching spanish authorities are desperately trying to avoid that you can only do it at the bailouts rate of other nations like greece portugal and ireland the country is maybe one hundred fifty billion euros in debt. just ahead more revelations us servers and i case which has been poisoning ties between russia and the u.k. evidence is that formal teligent alexander litvinenko was on the pay of the british and spanish super services forms more than six years ago. and iran is going to get nuclear talks back on track stay where you want to watch stocks latest visit was productive and still not allowing you to inspect the controversial college and test site that's enough for. his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story

hundred sheep in the mountains in plains. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt having studied accounting but you just unfamiliar dictated that he would take on the can of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stage setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of disc ins his p.c. back amongst his family his job is a lonely one and tough going out in a way there's braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius is that i miss them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so all most of us is simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries

and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and that's where they fit their could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alive and i used to have people who helped me but they were good they didn't take care of the sheep with all the halts they hurt the cattle. with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest. and lie still and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the hoda gets a high a fair price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in their publics capital. but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pasta way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact way he can start to look for a new wife. told

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i don't mean that it. you're watching our team play us a look set to boost its military presence in southeast asia with washington reportedly on the brink of a deal to rotate more troops and ships through the philippines territorial tensions in the area asa marine and many see the move as an attempted to undermine china's influence they and some say it's all a dangerously high stakes game america does like to miss around with china and try to stand up by taking sides in this dispute which between china and its neighbors it's really not because it cares one way or the other but the philippines although mrs clinton has called the stuff trying to see the west pull in that's a very strategic part of the world

a lot of shipping through that area and. when there are so many players involved you cannot control them all and if you want to go then really it would be very hard to control the situation bring it under control. and coming up later this hour as states of stability in. this part of the freezing temperatures in moscow are tropical sciences in there the president of brazil is in town said to meet with the russian leader for more germany going to score later this hour. then the national scandal sparked by the death of former russian intelligence officer alexander litvinenko is gaining momentum a british pretty inquests review has a real that litvinenko was on the payroll of both the u.k. and spanish secret services when he was poisoned six years ago a court in london also heard evidence apparently implicate in the russian state in his murder up more on this from marty's lawyer smith. this is not just about the

sort of salacious details of spying on the world there is there are wider implications to this and of course it has been the major stumbling block in the u.k. russian relations for the last six years since it happened and it comes up every time there's any kind of problem in the relationship between russia and the u.k. and of course the main problem at the moment is syria and how much involvement the international community could have in syria but we hearing that the inquest lawyer has said that the u.k. government has material evidence that the russian state is guilty but interesting really under the law the english courts can't pass judgment on the lawfulness of the behavior of another state so that's an interesting point which i'm sure will come up again when the inquest is held but of course we've seen no details of this evidence which is interesting the u.k. government has kept its evidence very close to its chest meanwhile there is convincing evidence on the other side of course. do you go boy who's the u.k.

police's main suspects. because poisoning he recently passed a lie detector test administered by british experts in which he was specifically asked whether he has had any involvement in it because death he said no lie detector test was passed by him also because only father told r.t. that he didn't suspect the kremlin or andrey lugovoy of having any involvement in his son's murder this inquest we're expecting it to take place next year and it's an inquest in which there will be huge media attention from all over the world. now it's round and built to last a chinese man prepare a small picture of maya love kaka lives with fantasy book style survival pods get the full story on our website. also while you're there footage of form of the seed of a building collapse in sodom and russia which killed at least five people injured.

the eye has concluded its mission to toronto with good progress according to iran's envoy to the nuclear watchdog however the two sides failed to agree on the inspection of the military base in parchin which is suspected of nuclear weapons related activity there will be more negotiations in general the us meanwhile are announced new economic sanctions against iran blacklisting twelve companies and individuals associated with the runs need to energy program but such pressure only delays any significant results also towards us says chris bambery from the

international socialist group. you know these negotiations up to be carried on in good faith i want it on the table is what is on the table and not the way some other demands of the president by washington which is what it continually happened via the continual military buildup and the sanctions which are going on against iran are not helping the situation i think one of the things that could have been done to ease this is an easing of sanctions as a concession if you or i go down the road for a really intimate iranian crude responded the way far from doing i have continued to up the ante by increasing sanctions an increase in the load your brush of how many iranians know any equine dode on that it would be some sort i'm not sure that's growing what the west but done is made when you have the iranian nuclear the nuclear program i thought our store not your pride. israel is using iran as a convenient bogeyman to justify its own nuclear weapons program according to iran's former top diplomat in an interview with our team that's coming up in full

at eleven thirty g.m.t. but here's a preview even today israel is there always using your own issue. to justifying the nuclear bomb saying iran is existential threat for israel but the fact is israel is that. produced nuclear bomb before islamic revolution because of iran where the shah of iran was that our law of israel. israeli nuclear bomb has nothing to do with iraq because it was. produced before of evolution now they are using islamic revolution in order to justify which i would not be so human. amid growing global financial uncertainty field by europe's debt troubles the

leaders of two of the world's key fosco economies a meeting in moscow but only in president dilma rousseff is on a visit to the russian capital mall on the tolls for martin. quote brazil and russia may be on the opposite sides of the planet but the two have more in common than in they seem vast natural resources how rapid economic growth will neither brazil russia were hit as hard by the economic crisis as the united states where the economy's been unstable we've seen the way offshore the european union where there is the debt crisis the eurozone crisis various austerity measures and saw russian brazil are also members of the alliance of giants of brics which also includes china india and south africa brazil is also russia's largest trade partner in south america currently the trade turnover stands at around six and a half billion u.s. dollars it's not that much compared to say russia's european partners but the two

want to see this figure exceed ten billion two years there's great potential for that there's already working projects in the spheres of energy aviation car manufacturing and so on before coming to moscow from brazil madame president reminded that she supports both gary and for her this trip is sort of a return to her slavic roots it's also her birthday today so there are definitely great expectations from this trip and from this meeting and of course we'll report about it as soon as it happens here in moscow later on friday. to some other international news in brief now susan rice has withdrawn her name from contention for the post of u.s. secretary of state she's been under fire for my republicans off the head michelle comments on the deadly raid on the american consulate in benghazi she claimed it had not been a terrorist attack then makes senator john kerry the front runner to replace hillary clinton when she steps down next year. the british government will pay over

two million pounds as compensation to the family of a prominent libyan dissident he claimed to britain's m i six that played a key role in his kidnap in hong kong and forcible transferred to tripoli where he was later tortured by the gadhafi regime twenty gender you are also paid millions to a number of guantanamo bay inmates to avoid a potentially embarrassing investigation after they accused london of a cozy relationship with autocratic regimes. coming up we invite you on a trip to discover russia's norther in port city of moments. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology versus trees and would you believe it this machine can fall and stripped hundreds of them each day when building this facility we wanted to use advanced technology that would

increase efficiency and allow us not to use manual labor also this provides for better quality goods as a result we were able to conquer western markets the demand for corrina birchwood is high since our production line is quite efficient where i will to work for higher wages to our employees the trunks and up here where they turned into planks which branch off for all manner of uses really is what exports and large but not all of it goes with gold. here in the museum island of traditional methods they used to build and maintain churches and dwellings dating back hundreds of years in this whole what colin is used to what. is highest complexity these planks are about to become part of something which exemplifies the combination of tradition and technology. here at the valley and all viking boat makers what is fashioned into their souls new and old they range from small private boats to

replicas used in the historical t.v. series hornblower. my boots are all special they're like children to me we have to design and build them from scratch it's always sad when we have to part ways every time we sail away while we remain at the dark and pavel gets much of his timber from karelia saying customers pine for its high quality wood. which brings us to the first six million cubic metres of wood is cut down in careers forests every year that goes to make everything from. farmhouses to follow what's wrong with corinne is proximity to europe and the baltic states big forests big business . wealthy british style.

markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. the woman screams in lines above the arctic circle and even for russia this is

a tough climate to survive even when temperatures can stay below zero for eight months of the year. and standing on the outskirts of the city of months it's right up in the far north of russia and it's been the starting point for many polar expeditions i'm hoping and i'm going to get to try one or two arctic challenges myself. you have to be physically fit to survive on here and the people certainly seem to have a lot of energy one of the biggest annual events in a moment ski is the northern lympics a collection of winter games that brings the population out in force and this is a welcome to take two. now if you're going to be an arctic explorer one thing you have to have is plenty of stamina so i have decided to enter alternate test of insurance on the cross-country march.

and. i know you must meet. your. goodman thank you very much who's your number one thirty one thirty which i think is about there's about a thousand people here. i'll make it to number one hundred thirty i'll be very lucky ok i'll go so if i'm torn as an experience i'm one of the race organizers and apparently i wasn't exactly in for a treat can you tell me a bit about the specifics of the race because it seems fairly true through the hard breathe you know here's a thousand gates and a bit more strange hill has about fifty killer the race to four so if i feel it and i say ok well i think if i make it past the first kilometer. if out of myself i think it's right i certainly try so. we may get said.